Follow Current Events

An important step in the professional development of a scientist is the ability to articulate the importance of their work. Specifically, many scientists need to describe their work during annual reviews (industry, academia), tenure reviews (academia), and grant proposals (government, academia, industry). While typically this description may involve applications to other scientific fields, it may also have applications in other areas such as engineering, government, business, and medicine. As a result, it is important to be proactive and take steps to follow current events. Many of the links in this chapter have been presented as part of the 2005 IEEE Spectrum Magazine's Career Accelerator Forum on September 20, 2005, in a talk entitled, "How to Keep Your Technical Chops in Fast-Changing Fields." The purpose of this chapter is to provide free available resources in these areas.

Resources

Know how the Physics is used

Physics and Nanotechnology

• Physical Review Focus (weekly email)
• American Institute of Physics (weekly email)
  
• Science News (weekly magazine with annual subscription)
• Albany Nanotech and Solid State Technology Magazine

Materials Science

• MRS Bulletin Table of Contents Alert
• Monthly Emails
  

Optics

• Photonics Spectrum (monthly free magazine)
  

Academia

• Inside Higher Ed

Government

• AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News (in Washington, DC)
• Grants.gov Opportunities Postings
• US Department of Health and Human Services - National Institutes of Health
• What's New @ IEEE-USA

Engineering

• IEEE Career Alert
• IEEE-USA Today's Engineer
• What's New @ IEEE
• Electronic News
• EETimes
• Silicon Strategies
• Test and Measurement World Magazine
• IEEE Spectrum webcasts
• IEEE TV - interviews
• IEEE Career Advancement Forum

Industry

• Electronic News Today
• Semiconductor International Weekly

Medicine

• Harvard Medical School weekly email newsletter

Business

• Harvard Business Review online
• New York Times